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This has been a top year for indie cinema. Fertile talents have emerged: Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex), Darren Aronofsky ([Pi]) Tommy O'Haver (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss). Familiar renegades prove they can expand on their obsessions: Hal Hartley in Henry Fool, Neil LaBute in Your Friends and Neighbors. An old timer like James Ivory displays renewed grace with A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. And this fall four filmmakers who made a collective splash in 1995 and '96 are presenting works that offer hope for a better, bolder American moviescape...
...your kids fool around with jimsonweed. Also known as locoweed, it grows wild, makes you high--and can be toxic. Kids who have eaten its seeds--including five last week in New Jersey--have become critically ill with hallucinations and seizures...
...caught red-handed in a fling easily manageable by any Joe capable of running a screw gun raised questions of Clinton's basic masculine competence. Indeed, if the Starr report could be believed, America's alpha male was something worse than a sinner or a lawbreaker. He was a fool, and a crybaby to boot...
...will have the cleansing effect of strengthening the historic relationship between stock valuations and the earnings of the underlying companies--a notion that had fallen out of favor after years of "momentum investing," in which all that mattered was that someone would buy the hot stock that some greater fool would soon bid up to an even higher price. The price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 has approached a record 30 this summer, twice its historical norm. Securities analysts, reassessing the impact of the turmoil in Asia and other foreign markets, last week began chopping down their estimates...
...achievements the Home Shopping Network, which he sold for a bundle in 1992. Nor would Barry Diller, a genuine TV honcho who makes a lot of money and headlines, qualify as anything less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson and Diller are joining upstarts UPN and the WB in trying to prove that the problem with TV is not the network but the financial model on which it is based...